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Giovanni Maddalena is full professor of theoretical philosophy at the
Giovanni Maddalena is full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Molise
The University of Molise ( it, Università degli Studi del Molise), also known as UNIMOL, is an Italian public university located in Campobasso, Italy. It was founded in 1982 by the Law n.590 according to the plan for the development and institutio ...
, Italy. He works on American philosophy, especially focusing on Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".
Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ...
and classic pragmatists
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. ...
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Career
He proposes a new paradigm of reasoning in The Philosophy of Gesture (Montreal, McGill-Queen’s 2015). According to this philosophy a gesture "any performed act with a beginning and an end that carries on a meaning (from the Latin gero=to bear, to carry on)". He is Senior Fellow of the Institute of American Thought (IUPUI, Indianapolis) and Member of the scientific board of the Philosophy Department atÉcole normale supérieure (Paris)
The ''École normale supérieure - PSL'' (; also known as ''ENS'', ''Normale sup, ''Ulm'' or ''ENS Paris'') is a ''grande école'' university in Paris, France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL).
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. Maddalena has been Fulbright Research Scholar (2010), Professeur Invité at École Normale Supérieure (2015), invited professor at University of Sao Paulo (Brasil), Santa Fe (Argentina),
He is founder and executive editor of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, founder and president of the Associazione Pragma, founder and co-director of the Vasily Grossman Study Center.He directs the series Biblioteca del Leonardo at Editore Carabba and collaborates with the newspapers Il Foglio, Tempi, Zafferano.news.
Bibliography
*2021– Filosofia del gesto. Un nuovo uso per pratiche antiche. Roma: Carocci. *2021– (ed.) The Italian Pragmatists. Between Allies and Enemies. Edited by Maddalena G – Tuzet G., Brill-Rodopi, The Netherlands. *2020– (with Guido Gili). The History and Theory of Post-Truth Communication. London: Palgrave-MacMillan. *2018 – (ed.) Vasily Grossman. A Writer’s Freedom. Edited by Bonola A.-Maddalena G., McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal. *2015 – The Philosophy of Gesture, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. *2015– (ed.) Il pragmatismo. Dalle origini agli sviluppi contemporanei, a cura di R.M Calcaterra, G. Maddalena, G. Marchetti, Carocci, Roma. *2009– Metafisica per assurdo. Peirce e i problemi dell’epistemologia contemporanea, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli (CZ). *2005– (editor and translator) C.S. Peirce, Scritti scelti, collana I Classici, UTET, Torino. *2003– Istinto razionale. Studi sulla semiotica dell’ultimo Peirce, Trauben Editore, Torino. *2000– La lotta delle tradizioni, MacIntyre e la filosofia in America, L’Arciere (Cuneo).References